Quotes by Kelly Link

“Marriage has affected the laws of gravity. We will now revolve around each other. You will exert gravity on me, and I will exert gravity on you. We are one another's moons. You are holding onto my ...”

“Sometimes a friendship is more like a war.”

“Bethany had liked Miles because he made her laugh. He makes me laugh, too. Miles figured that digging up Bethany's grave, even that would've made her laugh. Bethany had had a great laugh, which wen...”

“When his writing is going well, Gordon Strangle Mars likes to wake up at 6 a.m. and go out driving. He works out new plot lines about giant spiders and keeps an eye out for abandoned couches, which...”

“You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.”

“Jeremy and Karl and Elizabeth have known each other since the first day of kindergarten. Amy and Talis are a year younger...Now the five are inseparable; invincible. They imagine that life will alw...”

“Wizards are always hungry.”

“Everyone knows that wizards are pigheaded and come to bad ends.”

“No wizard has ever made himself useful by magic, or, if they've tried, they've only made matters worse. No wizard ever stopped a war or mended a fence. It's better that they stay in their marshes, ...”

“This is the list you carry in your pocket, of the things you plan to say to Kay, when you find him, if you find him:1. Im sorry that I forgot to water your ferns while you were away that time.2. Wh...”

“There were two girls in a room. They were reading a book Look again, and the room is empty. The end of the story will have to wait.”

“Fox is a television character, and she isnt dead yet. But she will be, soon. Shes a character on a television show called The Library. Youve never seen the Library on TV, but I bet you wish you had.”

“The witch knew who had killed her and she snatched pieces of time, here and there, from the business of dying, to make her revenge.”

“Remember, when you dont know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. Its like reading the I Ching or tea leaves.”

“The loved one suffers. All loved ones suffer. Love is not enough to prevent this. Love is not enough. Love is enough. The thing that you wished for. Was this it?Here endeth the lesson.”

“Meeting writers is usually disappointing, at best. Writers who write sexy thrillers aren't necessarily sexy or thrilling in person. Children's book writers might look more like accountants, or axe ...”

“Her chest feels very tight, as if she's suddenly full of poison. You have to keep it all inside. Like throwing yourself on a bomb to save everyone else. Except you're the bomb.”

“There was something about clowns that was worse than zombies. (Or maybe something that was the same. When you see a zombie, you want to laugh at first. When you see a clown, most people get a littl...”

“The zombies were like Canadians, in that they looked enough like real people at first, to fool you.”

“A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.”